Moebius new stuff

[Art Anderson]

3 hours ago, Khils said:

Question Art

When a manufacturer releases a ( kit test shot) its it a "one & only"? or do other modelers get it also?

I've never seen one in front of me...( life in Iowa....cornfield modelers group as Dr. Kerry coined it)....what happens to said test shot after kit goes to production?    khils

Kevin,  Dave gets only a few sets of each test shot, and there's a small group of us who look over the test shots, noting things that we see as needing to be fixed.  Dave does that as well, although he does assemble the shots too, to notice any problems with assembly.  Once those us who are reviewing are done, Dave collects all the comments, lists them on an Excel spreadsheet and emails that to the factory.  They then will make the corrects as requested, do another round of test shots, and forward them to Dave.  Anymore, the communication has gotten better, to the point that usually, just a couple of rounds of test shots does the job, and the tooling is approved for polishing and hardening--then goes into production.

As for those test shots,  I don't send mine out to anyone--it's Dave's call on that.  I generally keep mine as a "part of the history" of my assisting in Moebius Product Development.

Art

[Jon Cole]

40 minutes ago, Art Anderson said:

As for those test shots,  I don't send mine out to anyone--it's Dave's call on that.  I generally keep mine as a "part of the history" of my assisting in Moebius Product Development.

Art

As  well you should, Art.
Thank you for all you, and the other reviewers do.

[oldcarfan]

Anyone know if they plan to do a stepside version of the '69-'70 F-100? I've been thinking of doing one using the AMT '53 bed, but if they are going to release one, I'll wait.

[unclescott58]

4 minutes ago, oldcarfan said:

Anyone know if they plan to do a stepside version of the '69-'70 F-100? I've been thinking of doing one using the AMT '53 bed, but if they are going to release one, I'll wait.

The '53 bed is what Ford did in real too, on their stepsides of that time period. They a lot of mileage from that stepside box. The only trouble with using AMT's '53 stepside box on Moebuis' Fords, is what do you with the Moebuis' box? It doesn't look right with the '53 cab. 

[SSNJim]

Easy - make a trailer out of it.: